Iran's political friction adds heat to elections
Iran's hard-liners have been so effective at crushing the opposition, they now are left brawling among themselves in this week's parliamentary elections – the first major oting since the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009.
The balloting on Friday will amount to a popularity contest among various conservative factions, which were once united against reformists and are now sniping at each other and picking sides in the power struggle between Ahmadinejad and his opponents within the ruling Islamic theocracy.(AP)
